Literary Theory Post-GPT: Large language models and affective circulation

An event organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities Anouk Lang (Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Edinburgh) Dr Anouk Lang is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities in the Department of English and Scottish Literature at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also an affiliate of the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She is the co-editor of Digital Futures of Graduate Study in the Humanities in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series (with Gabriel Hankins and Simon Appleford, 2024), Patrick White Beyond the Grave: New Critical Perspectives (with Ian Henderson, 2015), and the editor of From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (2012). In this paper, Dr Lang consider what literary theory can bring to an understanding of the workings of large